A popular band which lost its popular
singer, Delia Glaister.
Although still playing, the band has not appeared in What's On for over a year
L-R Colin Turner,
Barrie Marshall, Geraldine Duckles, Alan Duckles (RIP), Tom Culbert
Photograph by Barrie Marshall 10th September 2009

Delia Glaister died
peacefully in St John's Hospice, Lancaster, on Wednesday 19th March at 11:30amAlan Duckles also dies peacefully on 13th
August 2018

Now rated as leading exponents of classic style jazz of the
1920's. The Quayside Hot Stompers are a group of musicians
dedicated to presenting the classic jazz, ragtime and blues
compositions of that era as typified by the bands of Joe 0liver,
Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington and many of
the smaller groups which featured musicians from such better
known ensembles. The band is named after St. George's Quay,
Lancaster, where a duo of Alan Duckles (Cornet/Vocals) and Tom
Culbert (Piano) were booked to play. One evening Alan's wife,
Geraldine (Banjo) and Barrie Marshall (Clarinet) sat in, and made
such a good impression, that they were immediately hired by an
enthusiastic landlord to make up a four piece band. A few weeks
later Matthew Woodhouse (Tuba/Trombone), joined to complete the
Quayside line-up, this all happening in Summer 1992. In 1994 the
band members were delighted when vocalist Delia Glaister joined
to give the band a new dimension with her renditions of the songs
of Bessie Smith and her contemporaries. The Quayside Hot Stompers
is led by pianist Tom Culbert who cut his jazz teeth on the
London scene in the 1960s with Brian Green, George `Kid'
Tidiman's New Era Jazz Band, The Pasadena Roof Orchestra, and the
Original Eastside Stompers. Alan Duckles, Barrie Marshall and
Delia Glaister are also members of the well-established New
Riverside Jazz Band which has done much to promote traditional
jazz in Lancaster and the Lake District for many years. Geraldine
Duckles took up the banjo in relatively recent years; she gives a
solid foundation to the rhythm section. Matthew Woodhouse was
formerly a professional trombonist in South Africa under the name
Keith Woodhouse. The band has been heard all over the UK from
Cornwall to Edinburgh. It has frequently broadcast on Manchester
Jazz FM as well as in Wales, Australia and the USA. The Quayside
Hot Stompers can be heard playing at the Wagon & Horses, Bent
Lane, Leyland on the third Tuesday of every month. Colin Turner (Tuba) has now
joined the band and plays most of the gigs with them instead of Matthew.